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Oct 17, 2012

of the forthcoming book thomas jefferson, and mark halperin of time magazine and john heilemann of time magazine. >> albert hunt, executive editor of bloberg news and david leonhardt the bureau chief of "the new york times", joining us shortly from washington, katty kay of bbc world news of america, and slate magazine, we have a really fascinating group of people here to talk about what was a remarkable debate. i begin first with al hunt. >> charlie, if the barack obama who was on stage at hofstra had showed up in denver two weeks ago, he might have put this race away. i don't think mitt romney did poorly tonight, i thought he actually did, you know, fairly well but barack obama was the ago press sorry. he set the agenda. he did everything he failed to do in deb very, denver, both in defending his record and in challenging some of governor romney's inconsistencies. my guess is that he let romney back in two weeks ago and this won't change, this is a very, very tight race and there was hemorrhaging, all indications were really that this was continuing that he probably stopped that this evening wi

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Oct 17, 2012

and managing editor of post politics.com and mark halperin senior political analyst for "time" and msnbc. chris to you as a viewer, not rating the debate, winners or losers, not that, but who answered questions and who was responsive to the people in the room and people at home? >> my read out on it, andrea, i watched it live and rewatched some of the clips, i have not watched the whole thing again, so let me say that as a caveat, but my read is neither of them really answered that many questions. candy crowley, i think, to her credit, repeatedly kind of said, you answered apples and the question was oranges. they did not answer the questions that were asked of them broadly. at one point there was a question about gas prices and we started talking about china. they kind -- as you go along in the debate, they each are trying to correct what they view as errors they made before so they use whatever question is asked to go back and say, now let me just make one point here. so i don't think from an undecided voter's viewpoint if you were looking for more information about where the two of them stan

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Oct 5, 2012

it has worked in his favor. joining me now, msnbc's senior political analyst mark halperin and "usa today" washington bureau chief susan page and columnist for "the washington post" uveen robinson. welcome all. first to mark halperin, the move to the center there's no complaint from conservatives, is it, so eager to defeat president obama they say anything that works is okay with them? >> well, romney has had as you know a troubled relationship with certain elements of the right, even after he picked paul ryan there was a brief honeymoon period there, people held their tongue for a while but the criticism started again. i think certainly the conventional wisdom amongst the chattering class now the debate performance will quiet critics on the right and get away with saying things moving to the center. the two things, one, it's being overstated how much he's changing positions or even rhetoric from some of the things he's previously said for good or ill but i don't see the cosmic switch to the center as much as others do and the other thing, if he has a bad debate in two weeks i'm not sure

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Oct 23, 2012

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Oct 23, 2012

york is tina brown, editor in chief of news week and the daily beast. from boca raton, mark halperin of time magazine and john heilemann of new york magazine. chuck todd of nbc news, from washington albert hunt, executive editor of bloomberg news joining us shortly gwen ifill of pbs and raddatz of nbc and john dickerson of, and slight magazine i am pleased to have each of them here this evening for this important debate and as always i begin with al hunt in washington. al. >> carlie, i think mitt romney went into this debate and the calculation was all he had to do was hold his own, he would win a draw and just show he could be commander in chief. in many ways it was very similar to the strategy barack obama had ironically in denver and in both cases i believe it misfired. almost from the beginning romney was on his heels and as the debate shaped up he ended up agreeing with barack obama's policies on just a stunning number of issues on bin laden, on drones, on pakistan, on getting out of afghanistan, in 2014, iranian sanctions, syria defending israel, even to some extent on libya. s

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Oct 24, 2012

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Oct 24, 2012

-- >> is he in chicago or is he here? >> we have mark halperin, of course, right here, right across the table. you know, if a lot of people out there are wondering why mika's thrown off this morning, all you need to do, willie, look at her sweater. that's why she's in mourning. it's jet green, of course -- >> i'm looking at the food on your sweater. >> all of the great love stories of our time, sampson and delilah, right? >> i told you he was distracted. >> romeo and juliet. lucy and desi, ronny and nancy. as the who sang in "who's next," "the song is over. i'm left with only tears." mark and eva longoria. >> i told you. >> splitsville. >> i told you, he was distracted. >> it's a romance that i thought would last a lunchtime and now it's over. >> i confess to not being as read in on that story as i should be. let me report back to you. >> you know lupica. they say these are the glory days of new york giants fans. go back to the '50s, the glory days of the early '60s. now's the time. you disagree. he's sniffing glue. >> he is greatly enamored of eli manning, as am i, but i think the glory days

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Oct 24, 2012

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Oct 24, 2012

'm going to page 6. >> mark halperin has been asking for weeks for specifics from the president about what he would do, what new policies he would propose over the next four years. so he put out this 20-page booklet yesterday. >> that's great. >> maybe we'll get a look at what a second term would look like. one line. quote, the document contains no new proposals. >> oh, wow. >> not a new word in it. >> but you know, at least, mark halperin, we can find out what he's going to do by what he says at editorial board meetings because this has been forever. you go to editorial board meetings, and you talk and you talk to the editorial board, and they decide whether they're going to endorse you, and then they tell the people what you told them, right? that's how it works, right? >> it's a great way to learn things particularly in the battleground states with a lot of serious newspapers who get a chance with an extended conversation with the president so he can kind of lay out views for the reeders, or not. >> like des moines, let's say. so the president goes on "the view," and he goes on "inside

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Oct 11, 2012

of the "national review", from danville is mark halperin of time magazine, chuck todd of nbc news and from washington al hunt, executive editor of bloomberg news, joining us shortly from washington will be katty kay of the bbc world news america, gwen ifill of pbs and joining us in new york is john dickerson of nbc news and slate magazine, i am glad to have all of them and we go to al hunt for an assessment of what you saw in evening. >> charlie, we saw the anti-obama tonight, and his name was joe biden, the vice president did everything the president failed to do last week. he effectively, i felt rather effectively and passionately defended most administration policies, and he also effectively criticized without malice some of the romney proposals and contradictions. >> i think aside from a few stylistic issues, programs interrupt ago few too much and smirks it was a very good night for the vice president. paul ryan clearly showed tonight that substantively he can play in the major leagues he didn't make any mistakes and held his own. >> and the president in denver last weekend, and i thi

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Oct 11, 2012

and the biden interruptions will be a juicy topic for discussion. >> rose: mark hall snrin. >> halperin? >> well, i am mostly going to paraphrase what rich lowry just said, there are two things that clearly come out of this, one is the detrimentally base is going to be pleased that they thought, saw the somebody fighting on their behalf and being aggressive on a lot of big issues that the president did not prosecute in the last debate. two, i think it is clear that with paul ryan will come out of it having a lot of favorable impressions and for a lot of people the impression he is ready to be president if that were required. the big open question is, how much will this debate be defined with the romney campaign's efforts and willingness on the part of the weed by joe biden's verbal and visual ticks which could end up this is all it is remembered for, even if that is dominant on cable and in comedy shows, which i think it certainly will be, i don't think this debate is really going to change much about the trajectory of where the race is, it is all going to look toward the presidential debate com

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Oct 18, 2012

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Oct 18, 2012

msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst, mark halperin. hello, halperin. former treasury official and "morning joe" economic analyst steve rattner. good to have you on board as well. >> morning, mika. >> we have new polls this morning that are very interesting. and i see how alex has stacked this. and we just started fighting. and alex doesn't really fight. about this whole binder thing. how is that not a lie? can we go there, halperin? when you say you sought out, and then it turns out that they were brought to you, that's not the truth, correct? >> i just don't think that's what this campaign should be about. >> right. >> i would say that about either side. >> what, us calling out facts shouldn't be about that? all right. we'll get to it. but i will totally disagree. it appears with everybody at this table. >> explain what you mean that's important. >> at the debate the other night, mitt romney talks about how there weren't enough women, and so he sought them out. >> right. >> and then binders of women were brought to him, which is a whole funny thing but, you know, tha

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Oct 3, 2012

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Oct 3, 2012

after the interview those ideas are actually not part of his plan writing -- mark halperin, as you know, i'm an easily confused person but i think for even people like you who are not easily confused this is very confusing. is the romney campaign betting they can get through by just confusing the american public into submission? >> alex, if i were the kind of person who got depressed by a lack of specificity and seriousness in presidential politics i would be very depressed. this cycle you can judge? in different ways. the lack of specificity is ghouling for three reasons, two serious guys, two, the country has big challenges and three both campaigns are enunciated this principle on big important serious things, rather than have the candidate be specific at all about what they do, they say really it's better for the public to have this the rashed out with congress after i'm elected. the president says the same thing about social security reform. i find it unorthodox and maybe i need to cover a few more to cover the romney campaign, a major float of a proposal in a local television inter

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Oct 3, 2012

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Oct 3, 2012

, the fact wars. mark halperin, i've been trying to find appropriate terms that would be substitutes for the phrase game change. i can't. you coined it, you own it. which of these videos, is either one of these videos a game changer in terms of tonight's debate? >> alex, any student of political tv and cable news who didn't watch hannity last night i pity the fool. it was an awesome episode of the show and i mean, if there was some mastermind trying to figure out how to change the game with that video, i think they kind of failed. some people are talking about it as simply for the base to energize the base. mitt romney is no longer running for the republican nomination, he's trying to win a general election. the things that might energize the base, that help to undermine the credibility of his effort with the mainstream media, if i may use that phrase, i think just aren't helping him out. that was a wasted day and lost yesterday after tie org wying og news psy cycles in a row. whoever was doing that on his behalf, ridiculous. >> the nipping at the heels, we've talked about the offens

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Oct 30, 2012

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Oct 30, 2012

news is we will clean up and we will get through this. >> we turn now to politics with mark halperin of time magazine, who is also the best selling author of game change. >> if this storm hadn't happened we would be seeing wall-to-wall coverage of one of the most exciting finishes to a presidential election in the television age. we are not going to see as much of that, certainly through the weekend. which means whichever candidate was going to befit more fr national coverage is going to lose paired to what it would have been like. >> rose: we conclude this evening, focusing on politics with nate silver, founder of "the new york times" blog 538.com. >> i mean ohio is a swing state for a reason, is that it resembles the united states, rural areas and suburban areas, you could certainly have a case where romney wins the popular vote by one point and obama wins ohio and iowa by one point that is possible, maybe a one or two-point shift but there is most no way to look at the historof tsounry or try to do the more complex things, the mathematical models unlikely to have romney win the po

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Oct 12, 2012

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Oct 12, 2012

, mark halperin. >> i think i speak for everybody when i say this morning we are all washington senators. >> we are. >> i'm still not going to call them the nats. we had a debate, but willie, really quickly last night, some more great baseball. >> holy cow. >> can you believe that? >> can you see it on my face, when you invest that much time in a game, you have to stay up late and see what happens. >> what time was that over? >> about midnight. >> i came home, vice presidential debate on dvr, yankees live, it was a long night. the yankees lost extra innings. another 12-inning game. 13 innings, excuse me. and the orioles came through in the clutch. a-rod, one more time, joe -- >> struck out. >> he struck out. and then when they had a shot down one run, the bottom of the last inning, they pulled him back to the bench again and sent eric chavez up. he made the last out of the game. it's an incredible story. alex rodriguez, one of the great players in the history of the game, is being taken off the field in crunch time. >> you just can't trust him in crunch time. all of these series going fi

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Oct 17, 2012

. >> and with us now, mark halperin, co-author of the book game change. he's up early with us and this morning we'll stand a little closer than we did yesterday, make it a more intimate affair. let's look right away at your report card. president obama gets a b minus from mark halperin, a c for mitt romney. explain the grades. >> this debate was the biggest rorschach test i've seen since doing these grades. you have people including focus groups and polls that go one way, go the other. i think part of my grades are based on performance, part based on how it affects the race and the chances the person has of winning the contest. i thought governor romney lost for two reasons. one is the libya exchange. i think that was an issue where he thought he'd be on offense. i thought his answer was weak. the president's was very strong. the other main reason is what has mitt romney's problem in this campaign all along some when someone gets inside his head, when someone connects his policy proposals with his personal background, when someone says you're a rich guy, you've got all these bank accounts, you to

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Oct 15, 2012

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Oct 15, 2012

and "time" senior political analyst, mark halperin. he's going to talk about a little dust-up over the moderator of the debate this week. and in washington, the washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay. so much to talk about. but let's start by talking about this critical week that's ahead in the presidential elections. the candidates are going to be getting together for two more debates within a week. and you know, you've just got to know, the face of this race is going to change again. a new poll out of likely voters sets the stage. and this is by "the washington post" and abc news. and it puts the race within the margin of error in this national poll. you've got president obama at 49%. mitt romney's at 46%. and the poll finds a majority of americans now approve of the way that the president's handling his job. over 51% while 42% believe the country's heading in the right direction, up from 13% two weeks ago. however, when they're asked about the candidates and whether their opinion of the candidates changed after the first debate, 19% say they view the president m

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Oct 5, 2012

everybody first? >> with us on set, "time" magazine political analyst mark halperin and the chairman of deutsche incorporated who is also a student of history. >> yes. >> donny deutsch. >> 1 for 1. >> let's go to what the kids will be talking about all weekend. >> i'm still curious, though, about what everybody is waiting for in those first debates. i don't want to be cynical. i'm not quite sure what's going to happen there that's going to flip the switch. we've seen these guys. i know we haven't seen them together -- give me a scenario, for instance, an actual bac back-and-forth that could save one of them. >> what if one of them just didn't show up? >> would you like me to support my original thesis? >> help me. >> number one, 5% of undecideds. if we become a student of history, one quarter of those are maybe swayed. we're talking about a 1% shift. number two, every poll before the first debate usually ends up being the stand-up poll at the end. number three, actually the leader now gets to be the underdog in the next one. he got his ass kicked in the first one, there's no doubt ab

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Oct 17, 2012

" magazine senior political analyst, mark halperin. >> mr. happy. >> yeah, that's what we are. that's what we think of. national affairs editor for "new york" magazine and msnbc political analyst john heilemann. and remote from all the way across the room, we like to keep him separate, sometimes he has to be put in the corner, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. >> the barnicle cam. >> yeah, just stay over there. okay, where do you want to begin? >> how about the debate? >> how about reaction to the debate and the polls. really? you want to start with the debate? last time we did a debate, you started with baseball, so that's why i ask. no, i thought it was fascinating. >> who do you think won? >> i think it's fair to say the president did a lot better and probably won the debate. i think romney kind of laid out the red carpet for him to hone in on romney's weaknesses for some reason. romney was kind of weak last night, especially on libya. mark halperin, what do you think? >> i think the president won for two reasons mostly. one is libya. an issue the republicans thought they'd have an advantag

MSNBC - Morning Joe

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Oct 5, 2012

we've wasted enough time here. i'll think about something. i do think, mark halperin, it changes on the margins. i think suddenly florida, nevada, colorado, virginia, north carolina, all of these swing states that were close, i think if ryan/romney have a couple more good debates, those all go in the romney column. that was a freudian slip. but at the end of the day, though, the question is committee make up the big difference in ohio? can he make up the big difference in wisconsin? because if he doesn't win ohio, he's got to win wisconsin. the romney people still think he can. after that debate and after barack obama's performance, which was staggeringly bad. >> all right. >> no, i mean it. >> he's right. >> okay. >> i'm hearing this from democrats. and this broke through. we always hear about how americans aren't paying attention. they're looking at reality shows. this broke through, everybody was talking about it, not just how well romney did but how badly the president performed. >> well, just as i think it was premature to declare the race over before, i think it's too soon

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Oct 1, 2012

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Oct 1, 2012

have msnbc and "time" senior political editor mark halperin and national affairs editor for "new york" magazine john heilemann. guys. hi, willie. >> hello. >> it's not as bad as being a red sox fan, but if you're a jets fan right now, holy cow! tebow's like, you know, he's getting ready. >> he should have been ready. i don't know why they kept sanchez in the whole game. 103 yards, less than 50% passing, one interception and frankly wasn't close. it was a strange thing to watch. >> it was absolutely brutal. and then, of course, the yankees, man. that playoff race. >> ooh. >> you remember what i said at the beginning of the year? i said the red sox -- we only want to be ahead of the orioles. we all laughed. it's tied! >> and the red sox have a chance to spoil the yankees' season. so that might be a saving grace, at the end of this miserable year, they have three games in new york, they could ruin the yankees' scene. >> john heilemann, as a fellow red sox fan, you and i would take no pleasure out of the red sox destroying the yankees' season. despite the fact that the yankees -- >> speak

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Charlie Rose

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Oct 5, 2012

request mark halperin of time magazine and benjamin brafman, a leading trial attorney. the mitt romney wasn display last night is the one that his friends and family and a few journalists who have had access to him over the years have seen before. that guy can win this race. the question is, can jesus stain it beyond one night. >> in any number of areas what governor romney has done as he said laid, said last night he laid out the broad principles but now you have gotten specific about the good parts, the carrot if you will and very vague about the stick. >> obama is brilliant in a speech, a peach is different than when you are in an argument and when you are in an argument if you don't bring passion to your argument the other side is generally going to win and what you say almost matters as much as how you say it, and the scary thing about politics is, substance aside, you know, a lot of the journalist whose know the substance on these issues are debating with themselves who was more accurate and who was not. when you listen to the person in the street, the voter, the juror who i spe

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Oct 11, 2012

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Oct 22, 2012

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Oct 22, 2012

along the way. >> john, you're a partner in crime, dare i call him, mark halperin, those numbers about the likability and connecting, that's very good news for the president. or good news. i wouldn't want to paraphrase mark halperin. he's very exact in his language. do you agree on that? >> yeah, sure. those have -- the president has always had a real advantage over governor romney on that issue. governor romney managed to at least get his favorable and unfavorables into the positive, net positive category after the denver debate for the first time really in his entire six years of running for president. he's always suffered as not being a particularly likeable candidate. he's a little more likeable now. president obama still has a big advantage there. it's always been one of his key assets going forward and i think it will continue to be a key asset for him but to richard's point, there were two different races against time going on here. one is that the economy's getting better and that helps president obama. the other is right now, governor romney has a lot of momentum in a lot of s

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Oct 30, 2012

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Oct 30, 2012

daily fix, chris cizilla, msnbc contributor and managing editor of post politics.com and mark halperin, senior political analyst for "time" and msnbc. first of all, the president has been on a conference call with governors, with mayors from the affected area, in the white house, not campaigning. they've canceled their ohio campaigning for tomorrow as well. joe biden also canceled campaigning. how do they handle this and then you've got the image of mitt romney doing what they say is not a campaign event, in the same place they were going to hold a campaign event, they say they're making collections for hurricane storm relief. chris cizilla, first to you, we checked with the red cross, the red cross said they're always grateful for donations, but this is not what they need or want. they always tell people please donate money. we have our own packagers and wholesalers and distribution system and to now get niece canned goods from the romney event in ohio and have to package it, used clothes they have to clean, they can't go directly to victims what they need is donations of blood and do

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Oct 12, 2012

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Oct 12, 2012

of last night's debate, time magazine senior analyst, mark halperin, he's the co-author of game change and the forthcoming game change. mark, thanks for waking up early, my friend. >> i'm happy to be here. i have had it up to here with your mularkey, with all due respect. >> get off my lawn. >> yeah. >> let's get to your report card. paul ryan a b and joe biden a b-. here is the wisdom. democrats say joe biden was strong, he was the adult on stage. he stopped the bleeding, such that it was from last week's debate. for republicans paul ryan passed the can he be president threshold and joe biden was rude and arrogant. what say you? >> it's certainly the case. there were some democrats who conceded the point. that's why i gave the vice president a lower grade. the smiles, laughs, smirks. i don't think it changed anything about the race. i think that they both laid down the markers and, again, for their own parties, mostly. the vice president energizing democrats and for paul ryan showing people he was on that stage and not overrun. the vice president clearly dominated the proceedings. >>

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Oct 15, 2012

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Oct 15, 2012

agreed to by the candidates. according to "time" magazine's mark halperin, the two campaigns have raised objections saying the moderator's participation should be much more limited than she's leading people to believe. crowley has suggested she'll ask follow-up questions, which is not part of the agreed upon format. >>> as the candidates get in their final cram session before tomorrow night's debate, aides say president obama will be more aggressive, and mitt romney's camp says he'll be ready. for details, we go now to nbc's tracie potts for the latest. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. aides say that the president has seen the tape of the last debate, that he was disappointed but that he is determined not to make the same mistakes tomorrow. >> hello everybody, hello, hello. >> reporter: president obama taking a break. advisors say expect a more aggressive president to challenge mitt romney tomorrow night. >> he's got to be more energetic. i think you'll see somebody who's very passionate about the choice that our country faces. >> we saw governor romney sort of s

MSNBCW - First Look

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Oct 16, 2012

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Oct 16, 2012

a night a couple weeks ago in denver did? we'll talk live in a minute to mark halperin. >>> four years after fighting barack obama in a presidential campaign, hillary clinton sent out in a round of interviews to take responsibility for the events last month at the consulate in benghazi, libya. does the white house think this will slow the barrage of

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Oct 11, 2012

" magazine senior editor mark halperin. >> godspeed. so mika, we've got 26 days left. until the election. is that a word? i saw it on the front of "sports illustrated." we have a passel of polls that are pounding us this morning. and this race is a toss-up. >> it is. >> in all the swing states. it's a toss-up in all the swing states. and we've got a debate coming up. and my gosh, there's so much political news. it only makes sense that we start with baseball. willie. >> no. no. >> unbelievable night last night. >> we could talk about lance armstrong. >> the 162nd day of the season last year. last night, holy cow! >> where do you begin? where do you begin? >> let's start with the yanks. >> okay. >> let's start with the yanks. it's unbelievable. >> this newspaper tells the whole story. >> this is the story. >> if you can get a shot of that. that's a picture of raul ibanez, pinch-hitter raul ibanez with the headline "a-who!" >> that guy is a natural. >> alex rodriguez believed to be one of the three or four greatest players who ever lived. in crunch time in the ninth last night in a one-run

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Oct 22, 2012

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Oct 22, 2012

halperin hates, i don't understand why mark halperin hates the council on foreign relations so much, but decides his anti-council bias, you know the other thing that is possible and it can't be discounted is the possibility there will be some news story that cops out in the next few weeks that has an appreciable look on the outcome, it doesn't happen that often but you have a campaign in the obama campaign that spent a lot of time doing a lot of research on governor romney, run by matt rhodes the campaign manager there who is by training an opposition researcher, i am not predicting this, i am just saying it is a possibility that one of the two campaigns still has one piece of opsition research in their bag,that theyill pull out in the last two weeks and also possible that a story will just emerge organically, you can't forget that in 2000, the story about governor bush is dui actually had an effect at the end, at least if you believe karl rove it actually moved the needle significantly in terms of the popular vote at the end of 2000 and it is always possible a story like that will

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Oct 29, 2012

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Oct 29, 2012

-4 corridor, a six-point gap. and mark halperin, that's a fairly significant gap for an area that bill clinton carried in '96 and that president obama carried. >> if that poll is accurate, romney will win florida for sure, if he's going to carry i-4 by that big a margin. most indications are that he's going to win the state. however, you have to point out, the obama campaign says they're competing in all the battleground states, and they are. the president's one event today is in florida with bill clinton, 10:00 this morning. >> going to be right in the middle of the i-4 corridor. >> right in the middle. they're competing there. they're not giving up. they're using their most precious asset today, one obama visit with bill clinton to go to florida. so they're not giving up, but there's no question romney has an edge there right now. >> you usually have, mika, north florida against south florida and central florida being what makes a difference. the south florida poll out of miami-dade shows the president -- >> largest county in the state, 52%-43%. >> that's not a surprise. i

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Oct 31, 2012

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Oct 31, 2012

and "time" senior political analyst, mark halperin. and national affairs editor for "new york" magazine, john heilemann. willie is coming in the room right now. >> willie sort of sauntering in. >> he is. wow! got a lot of presidential polls to get to, and we will. >> i tell you what, important ones that really narrow the focus of this race. >> right. first we're going to start with the aftermath of sandy. the united states pledging quick relief for the millions of victims of the hurricanes. today president obama is scheduling to arrive in atlantic city to survey the damage alongside governor chris christie. this morning the associated press reports the storm killed at least 50 people. there are more than 8.2 million households still without power across 17 states. and many of the outages could last beyond election day. between damage to property and the economy, the total impact expected to reach a staggering $50 billion. the damage is perhaps nowhere worse than the coastline of new jersey where sandy came ashore laying waste to an amusement park and historic boardwalk at seaside height

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Oct 9, 2012

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Oct 9, 2012

of postpolitics.com and mark halperin for "time" and msnbc. joining us from chicago. chris cizilla, first of all to you, the new polls certainly have given a great burst of energy to mitt romney's campaign. >> no question. i would say and we said this when there was polling that had president obama up eight, nine, ten points nationally, let's see where it sorts out at the end of the week or beginning of next week. if you are mitt romney, this is -- the pew poll yesterday was huge news because a lot of what happens here at the end and we are 28 days away, is momentum based. for folks who haven't made their mind up yet you want to look like you're the guy with the momentum. coming off the debate and the pew poll you now can make the case that mitt romney is the guy who is kind of the energy and enthusiasm candidate. i think some polls will come out in places like ohio, virginia, north carolina, florida, hopefully some independent polls in the next few days that i think will get the measure of how much bounce mitt romney got. if those polls suggest him really closing the margin in those states then

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Oct 16, 2012

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Oct 16, 2012

darling and msnbc and "time" senior political analyst mark halperin, i just like saying the word darling. scott helmand of the boston glowing and mother jones washington bureau chief david corn. in a move that will surprise exactly no one, nbc news has learned that tonight's president obama will do what everyone expected him to do two weeks ago, bring up mitt romney's 47% comments. that secret video has been romney's biggest gaffe and he spent the week since trying to show he cares about all americans including the poor and working past. this past saturday congressman paul ryan attempted to further that message making a stop at a soup kitchen in ohio, offering to help clean dishes. while ryan logged in a total of 15 minutes at the kitchen he did manage to wash some pans and made sure to note his own had history on kp. >> you know i've [ inaudible ] washing dishes. you get callouss on your fingers it's so hot. >> the photo opt looked like campaign gold to everyone but the people who actually work at the soup kitchen. the president of the charity brine antall told "the washington p

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Oct 16, 2012

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Oct 16, 2012

political analyst, mark halperin. he's also the author of the book "game change." . let's talk first about strategy tonight. president obama of course criticized for being sleepy in the first debate. we don't know if he was trying a rope-a-dope strategy tonight. what is it tonight? >> here's what he has to do. there's speculation about what the president needs to do, what governor romney needs to do. the president has two obligations, one is to show that he really wants to be president in a second term and what he would do. that's more important. people focus on taking down mitt romney. i think he'll get questions tonight about what he would do in the future. to me that's the most important thing. second is he needs to go back to defining mitt romney on his terms. will he bring up the 47% quote? will he bring up bain capital? i think he's lost the advantage on defining mitt romney in negative terms. all along he said if he's going to win, he has to make mitt romney an unacceptable choice. he has to find a way to do that in the context of a town meeting where the voters and the people watch

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Oct 23, 2012

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Oct 23, 2012

indication, horses and bayonets was the line of the night. >>> helping us brick that down is mark halperin, the author of "game change." if the first debate belonged to mitt romney, the second debate was president obama stopping the bleeding, what was this debate? >> both guys getting done what they wanted to get done. the president wanted to show the united states he was an experienced commander in chief. you show what you have done, you have the kind of experience, knowledge and intelligence to show people i know how to do this part of the job. i thought the president did that we saw a number of exchanges where he schooled mitt romney to a large extent. romney handled it okay. but the president made it clear, romney sis inconsistent. romney wanted to show people he's fluid in foreign policy. the president is right, there is a lot of holes in things mitt romney said last night versus the past, but he largely would send the signal to some voters i can do this job. i'm credible as commander in chief. getting over that bar is what his goal was so people would move past that question and on t

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Oct 25, 2012

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Oct 25, 2012

sense of confidence in the obama people this morning. >> michael, mark halperin went to chicago and talked to a couple of folks -- a couple folks named jim messina, david axelrod. david plouffe pushed back, plouffe calling romney's bluff, i wanted to say that because it rhymes. plouffe says, in terms of the narrative they're trying to develop to all of you, florida and virginia are moving in their direction, their spending and travel schedule doesn't reflect that. if team romney feels so good about florida, pullout. i believe they're overstating their electoral college situation. team obama is convinced they have this. and yet the president is out there giving out doughnuts and also these things, we have official copies of the obama plan for jobs in middle class security which is thinner than i thought it would be. >> not just thin, a lot of pictures. >> that's how you win them over. >> the -- you're absolutely right. the obama campaign feels like they're winning, feel if the election were held today they would win, feel like their position is going to get bet, they feel like th

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Oct 4, 2012

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Oct 4, 2012

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Oct 22, 2012